Filament for producing two-way live communication using audio, video, picture and text messages from mobile devices to smart/standard televisions

ABSTRACT

A filament for producing a two-way live communication system using audio, video, picture, and text messages from a patient&#39;s television in hospitable environments to a distant love one&#39;s mobile device. The present invention includes software that enables patients and remote loved ones and caregivers to remain in consistent contact especially during crisis situations with the downloading of the application on both the patient&#39;s television and mobile devices. Upon downloading this software each member is prompted to enter in their required information in order to connect with the individual they seek. The software will also be used by doctors to communicate with a patient&#39;s primary care family member, that patient&#39;s pending treatments and goals. The software is built to expand communication channel on a tool which over 95% of individuals have access to and watch daily.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to communication systems and softwaredevelopments, more particularly a software all-in-one development thatallows for two-way communication from a mobile device to smart andstandard television that will display modules of telecommunication viavideo, audio, text and picture messages, including frequency links assuch, and text messages via standardized communication protocols and/orvideotelephony as well as other technology harnessing audio-videosignals.

Those in long term care facilities, to take one exemplary instance, donot have the time nor perhaps the faculties to take advantage of currenttechnology to control the multiple communication media that couldsubstantially enhance their lives. According to research those in longterm care facilities who do have access to cellular phones, only 20% ofthese patients were able to properly use such devices, though over 95%of such residents may have access to a smart or standardized television.Currently there are no developments within this field created to be usedin this manner for two-way family/friend and professional communication.

The present invention was created to connect to smart and standardtelevisions in such a way as to enable bidirectional transmissions oflive text, call, picture, video messages and other audio-video signalsembodied in the current state of the communication arts.

Software developments and healthcare fields go hand in hand with cuttingedge technologies. From transformational advances to breakthroughdiscoveries, software developments in the healthcare systems relyheavily on innovations. Constance Artistry Care LLC's “CAC software”,for instance, is a wireless interactive software program specificallydesigned for the healthcare sector. CAC software represents aninnovative approach to improving the quality of communication amongstpatients, the professionals, and the loved ones invested in thepatient's care. The present invention creates another way to be inconsistent contact on something that every (client) patient has in theirrooms—television—over wireless communication, such as the use of WIFI™.

Furthermore, the present invention is a solution to a large problem thatmany face as has become apparent with the onset of Covid-19. Thehealthcare system failed to meet the needs of millions due to the lackof innovative technologies. It has been shown that the healthcare systemcan improve with technological developments, and future technologicalinnovation is going to continue transforming the world. It has also beenproven that human interactions improve one's health for those who are inlong term care facilities. While life became extremely challenging dueto Covid-19 more individuals were seeking technical resources tocomplete their daily task, improve their time management, and adapt tothe never-seen-before changes. The world shut down, but the healthcarefield became busier, and most importantly visitation was completelyclosed off to public visitators. CAC software's resilient healthcareinnovation is adapted to help people with technology.

Specifically, the present invention is adapted to bring back familiarinteractions between patient and family members, while also improvingthe overall dynamics that the professionals in the long-term carefacilities use to improve their patient's wellbeing. The expectation ofCAC software is to execute the aforementioned functionality as well asencourage dialogue via text, video, audio and pictures messages from amobile device to smart/standardized televisions, thereby facilitatingcollaboration between all parties involved with the sole purpose ofsustaining one's wellbeing. CAC software finds that technology combinedwith human interaction will have major health benefits. The healthcaresoftware of the present invention is an innovative service in thismanner due to combining these components.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In one aspect of the present invention provides an improvement to how atelevision is used and includes the following: a sender/receiver oftext, picture, audio and video files to a mobile device with thedownload of the application and access to wireless communication. Theother aspect of the present invention is mobile devices being enabled tosend and receive video, picture, audio and text messages to and from asmart/standard television with the download of the CAC software overWIFI or other routes of connections to the Internet. The cellular phonemodule and television may be configured through a software applicationto represent one or more audio-visual communications. The improvement toa television, in short, is the installment of a software applicationonto the TV; and a cellular phone module electrically connected to thesoftware application, wherein the cellular phone module is configuredthrough a software application to represent one or more audio-visualfiles via the television, wherein the software application representsthe one or more audio-visual files on a display portion of a visualdisplay of the television, wherein if needed the software application isdownloaded on a remote device so as to configure the remote device suchas a comcast or firestick to enable bidirectional communication with thetelevision.

In another aspect of the present invention, this innovation addressesthe barriers facing the chronically ill, the lack of consistentcommunication and time spent with their distant loved ones, and thelimited technological resources provided to them. This businessinnovation also addresses the ways in which facilities can use thissoftware to enhance their time management and protect themselves as wellas their patients, while also allowing for them to properly conducttheir jobs during any situation but more importantly during a crisis.The method includes electrically connecting the above-mentionedimprovement on a mobile device to a television of said resident usingthe CAC software; registering one or more first parties through thesoftware with a cellular phone module or on the TV; and transmitting, bythe one or more first parties, the one or more audio-visual files to thetelevision, wherein the one or more first parties include familymembers, friends or a medical practitioner, and wherein the one or moreaudio-visual files includes pictures, videos, text, and audios sent froma distant love one or a medical treatment plan from the medicalpractitioner.

These and other features, aspects and advantages of the presentinvention will become better understood with reference to the followingdrawings, description and claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention; and

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of an exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The following detailed description is of the best currently contemplatedmodes of carrying out exemplary embodiments of the invention. Thedescription is not to be taken in a limiting sense but is made merelyfor the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the invention,since the scope of the invention is best defined by the appended claims.

Broadly, an embodiment of the present invention provides a communicationsystem incorporating a single software/application development through amobile device and a smart or standard television with wireless access,both configured to send and receive voice audios, video, text andpicture messages.

Referring now to FIGS. 1 and 2 , the present invention may include acommunication system incorporating a television and all-in-one cellularphone module configured through a software application (hereafter, “CACsoftware”), to add voice audios, text, and video data to a smart orstandard television 10. The all-in-one cellular phone module mayinclude, but is not limited to, a particular cellular device or thelike. The television and all-in-one cellular phone module may beconfigured by the CAC software application and an older standardizedtelevision model may need access to a firestick or comcast via the HDMIport 14 and wireless communication protocols or direct internet access.The smart or standard television 10 just needs a power source 16 torepresent voice, text, video, and picture data on a display portion 12of the visual display of the television 10. It should be understood thatthe display portion 12 may be any shape and may be located along anyarea of the visual display (not just the upper left corner as shown inFIG. 1 ) such as the upper right corner, along the lower edge, or thelike.

A user may download the CAC software and sign up for a membership plan.Following this step, the first party must enter in their personalinformation along with a second party's (e.g., a patient's) informationroom number and code linked to the patient's cellular phone module whichis electrically connected to the second party's television 10. Onceinformation is entered the first party user may begin to send recordedvideos, audios, picture and text messages that are transmitted to thesecond party television 10—the messages may then pop up directly along aportion of the a display portion of the second party's smart or standardtelevision 10, while they are watching the television 10.

The CAC software is a development that enables two-way communicationfrom a television to mobile device. Once these two devices are connectedthe first party and the second party may be able to electronicallycommunicate via the visual display of the television 10 of the secondparty, enabling the first party to perform the functions of recordinglive video and audio messages, sending picture and written text messagesthat appear directly on that second party's television 10 displayportion.

For older televisions, digital media players and/or wireless hardwaremay be required. A membership identification module (for instance, “theCAC's SOFTWARE CODE”) will also be required.

The present invention allows for patients to communicate with theirdistant love ones. Professionals in this field now have a reliableresource of communication during a crisis situation to communicate withthe patient's primary caregiver and vise versa for the family member tothe professional with the use of sending audios, videos, and othermessages to their friends or family members who are sick in long termcare facilities. These messages will populate on the second party'spatient's TV screen.

The role of the CAC software is to provide an affordable softwaredevelopment to the patients, their family members and the professionalsthat offers a direct streamline of concise communication. The CACsoftware is unique and transparent in its route/methodoly used for thistwo-way communication which derives from the patient's TV to the distantloved one's mobile device. This business model takes into account thehealth improvements for a patient when being in contact with theirdistant love ones, greater time management for the family and friendsand the innovative resources provided to the professionals to improve ontheir quality or work.

Additionally, the present invention also creates a way for patients torespond to audios, messages, videos and pictures using their remotecontrol which is connected to their television or other audio-visualcommunication technology, such as, but not limited to, television,videotelephony, teleconferencing and other systems.

In certain embodiments, the network may refer to any interconnectingsystem capable of transmitting audio, video, signals, data, messages, orany combination of the preceding. The network may include all or aportion of a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a public orprivate data network, a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan areanetwork (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), a local, regional, or globalcommunication or computer network such as the Internet, a wireline orwireless network, an enterprise intranet, or any other suitablecommunication link, including combinations thereof.

The server and the television/computer of the present invention may eachinclude computing systems. This disclosure contemplates any suitablenumber of computing systems. This disclosure contemplates the computingsystem taking any suitable physical form. As example and not by way oflimitation, the computing system may be a virtual machine (VM), anembedded computing system, a system-on-chip (SOC), a single-boardcomputing system (SBC) (e.g., a computer-on-module (COM) orsystem-on-module (SOM)), a desktop computing system, a laptop ornotebook computing system, a smart phone, an interactive kiosk, amainframe, a mesh of computing systems, a server, an application server,or a combination of two or more of these. Where appropriate, thecomputing systems may include one or more computing systems; be unitaryor distributed; span multiple locations; span multiple machines; orreside in a cloud, which may include one or more cloud components in oneor more networks. Where appropriate, one or more computing systems mayperform without substantial spatial or temporal limitation one or moresteps of one or more methods described or illustrated herein. As anexample and not by way of limitation, one or more computing systems mayperform in real time or in batch mode one or more steps of one or moremethods described or illustrated herein. One or more computing systemsmay perform at different times or at different locations one or moresteps of one or more methods described or illustrated herein, whereappropriate.

In some embodiments, the computing systems may execute any suitableoperating system such as IBM's zSeries/Operating System (z/OS), MS-DOS,PC-DOS, MAC-OS, WINDOWS, UNIX, OpenVMS, an operating system based onLINUX, or any other appropriate operating system, including futureoperating systems. In some embodiments, the computing systems may be aweb server running web server applications such as Apache, Microsoft'sInternet Information Server™, and the like.

In particular embodiments, the computing systems includes a processor, amemory, a user interface and a communication interface. In particularembodiments, the processor includes hardware for executing instructions,such as those making up a computer program. The memory includes mainmemory for storing instructions such as computer program(s) for theprocessor to execute, or data for processor to operate on. The memorymay include mass storage for data and instructions such as the computerprogram. As an example, and not by way of limitation, the memory mayinclude an HDD, a floppy disk drive, flash memory, an optical disc, amagneto-optical disc, magnetic tape, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) drive,a solid-state drive (SSD), or a combination of two or more of these. Thememory may include removable or non-removable (or fixed) media, whereappropriate. The memory may be internal or external to computing system,where appropriate. In particular embodiments, the memory isnon-volatile, solid-state memory.

The user interface includes hardware, software, or both providing one ormore interfaces for communication between a person and the computersystems. As an example, and not by way of limitation, an user interfacedevice may include a keyboard, keypad, microphone, monitor, mouse,printer, scanner, speaker, still camera, stylus, tablet, touchscreen,trackball, video camera, another suitable user interface or acombination of two or more of these. A user interface may include one ormore sensors. This disclosure contemplates any suitable user interfaceand any suitable user interfaces for them.

The communication interface includes hardware, software, or bothproviding one or more interfaces for communication (e.g., packet-basedcommunication) between the computing systems over the network. As anexample, and not by way of limitation, the communication interface mayinclude a network interface controller (NIC) or network adapter forcommunicating with an Ethernet or other wire-based network or a wirelessNIC (WNIC) or wireless adapter for communicating with a wirelessnetwork, such as a WI-FI network. This disclosure contemplates anysuitable network and any suitable communication interface. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, the computing systems may communicate withan ad hoc network, a personal area network (PAN), a local area network(LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), orone or more portions of the Internet or a combination of two or more ofthese. One or more portions of one or more of these networks may bewired or wireless. As an example, the computing systems may communicatewith a wireless PAN (WPAN) (e.g., a BLUETOOTH WPAN), a WI-FI network, aWI-MAX network, a cellular telephone network (e.g., a Global System forMobile Communications (GSM) network), or other suitable wireless networkor a combination of two or more of these. The computing systems mayinclude any suitable communication interface for any of these networks,where appropriate.

The present invention may include a communication system or filament forincorporating a single-board computer and all-in-one cellular phonemodule configured through the CAC software application to add voice,video, audio and text, and data to a standard television 10. Theall-in-one cellular phone module may include, but is not limited to,smart phones or the like. The single-board computer and all-in-onecellular phone module may be configured by the CAC software to use aHDMI port 14 and/or wireless communication protocols or direct internetaccess to enable the disclosure herein.

A user may download the CAC software and register or enter first partyinformation along with second party's (e.g., a patient's) informationand number linked to the single-board computer and all-in-one cellularphone module which are electrically connected to the second party'stelevision 10. Once information is entered the first party user maybegin to record a video, send texts, and picture messages, record anaudio and/or video messages that are transmitted to the second partytelevision 10—the messages may then pop up directly in along a portionof the second party's standard television 10, while they are watchingthe smart or standard television 10.

The single-board computer connects directly to a standard television,providing a mother board which can operate as a mini-computer, cellphone or alarm clock. Of course, it is understood, the single-boardcomputer could be a multi-board computing device in some embodiments.The all-in-one cellular phone module may be the other component that isconnected to the single-board computer which operates as a cell phone.Once these two devices are connected the first party and the secondparty may be able to electronically communicate via the visual displayof the television 10 of the second party, enabling the first party toperform the functions of making phone calls, recording live video andaudio messages, sending picture and written text messages that appeardirectly on a portion of that second party's television 10 visualdisplay.

It should be understood, of course, that the foregoing relates toexemplary embodiments of the invention and that modifications may bemade without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as setforth in the following claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. An improvement to a television, comprising: asoftware development; and a cellular phone module electrically connectedto the software development, wherein the cellular phone module isconfigured through a software application to represent one or moreaudio-visual files via the television.
 2. The improvement to atelevision of claim 1, further comprising wherein the softwareapplication represents the one or more audio-visual files on a displayportion of a visual display of the television.
 3. The improvement to atelevision of claim 2, wherein the software application is downloaded ona remote device so as to configure the remote device to enablebidirectional communication with the television.
 4. A method ofenhancing a quality of communication of a resident in long-term carefacilities, the method comprising: electrically connecting theimprovement for a television of claim 3 to a television of saidresident; registering one or more first parties with said cellular phonemodule; and transmitting, by the one or more first parties, the one ormore audio-visual files to the television.
 5. The method of claim 4,wherein the one or more first parties include a medical practitioner,and wherein the one or more audio-visual files includes medicaltreatment plan from the medical practitioner.